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Intel scales down VMware investment

Chip giant looks to sell half of its shares in virtualisation firm

Filings with the SEC suggest that Intel wants to offload half of its VMware shares

Intel plans to sell half of its stake in virtualisation firm VMware,
according to a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The chip maker is to get rid of 4.75 million of the 9.5 million shares it
purchased in July 2007 for $219m (£137m).

Intel has already offloaded 500,000 shares apiece to Cisco and EMC, the
parent companies of VMware, for around $26 a share, and said it will sell the
remaining 3.75 million "approximately" on Tuesday.

The firm originally paid $23 per share for the stock, which peaked at $125.25
last October.

For its part, Cisco looks set to forge even closer ties to VMware after a
number of joint announcements at this year's VMworld show. The networking giant
will end up with about eight per cent of VMware's stock.